New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-26
SOUNDING THE PRAISES OF PSI UPSILON
1--WE HUNDRED LOYAL SONS MEET AT DINNER
SPEECuES WITTY AND WISE

College cheers and college music college boys and col
lge professors made things particularly lively In the ro'
eeption OF the Metropolitan Opera House last
plight Four hundred members OF the Psi Epsilon Fratcr
pity had arranged TO have little dinner
there all by themselves, and at tho eleventh
hour another hundred down like the
wolf on the fold and probably 500 men were
never packed into q tighttng dinner party than
this which ended the yfOurth general convention or
the fraternity. The men sat by chapters. some
colleges being represented by delegation
Of forty or fifty in number Columbia
college came early TO the front and tho familiar
"Hooray hooray hooray Columbia" was heard in
the land Mixed and mingled with that came the aborg
inal "wah-hoo-wah, Wah-hoo-wah da, da, da
d. Dartmouth wahhoo-wahl" the polysylla-
bio warcry OF the Lehigh men. andlhe many
other considerations OF shouts and yells
In which college enthusiasm finds expression In
an adjoining hall the Cornell boys and some other
belated members holding overflow meeting.
The title page the book and most OF the be-
tween the sung with a vgor that nearly
lifted the roof
At the head Of the table OF honor sat Charles Dudley
Warner. who presided. BY him President Charles
Kendall Adams and exPresdent Andrew ID. White, OF
Cornell; Chauncey NJ Depew. Joseph III. Choate, who
represented the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity; l. N Ford
the poet the conventions Professor Charles Carroll and
Adrian Van snderen, Of Brooklyn. After Mr. Warmers
humorous address OF welcome Frederick T. Brown
Of Columbia, spoke TO the toast "Fraternty.
The POSTMASTER then called Mr. Choate, the repre-
sentative Of that organization that has oyerspread the
land like the frogs Of Egypt our rival our admiration
and deesaiion saying that IKE Roland ana OlNeT,
Pal Epsilon AMI Alpha Delta Phi have come together to
ledge that neither whipthe other Mr. Choate
received the warmest welcome and many cheers ana re-
sponded In his usual happy vein. saying;
wish brethren [cheersl but as cannot
let foemen worthy OF steal Laughter
f FL u 'ps aHnsr
Davis who presided at the highlconse meet
Ing that he full shouts too fun uproarons
nv condition. but that IT Is the general condition
When dinner for the hghicense meeting had
pOthng but crust OF bread and when when S SaIe
me this empty bottle Chicago cider Is tins Pei Epsilon
hospitality lLaughterl don't know how l got here
know sill how I'm going 70 get away sho1is ofi laugh
cast, but hero am and mnst make the best Dill
The speaker tlen the history OF Alpha Delta
Phi chased foI1 college TO college by Psi Upson which
everywhere got the best men.
Delta Chapter speak for Psi Epsilon He closed with
touching reference 10 the invalid poet laureate or ~
Upson John H. 6aye- DR.. Macarthur said be was glad
10 know that Mr. Caoate was a praying man " lie has
told us that Psi tpslom and Alpha Delta Phi will soon be
enc he adied agree with him. and that one Will be
Psi Ups6n ltireat cheerng.l l tell you. brethren.
sSs ANYTHING O Mr. cnOso ever @s" saw
big thing look into the faces OF 500 as good looking
these" Finsh ny. he paid an eloquent tribute 70
Up.ion than when he bore himself with Psi Epsilon
dignity Ia The White Ho use"
Presicut Adams spoke in his usual scholarly manner
for Psi rsilon prcbelical The remaining toass were
eiion Gralaatc," Hooper c. Van Worst; Psi Epsilon
Professional" Daniel IL. Chamberlain: "Psi Epsilon
Poetical" l. \. Ford, and "Ps Epsilon Ahectionate,
Professor Carroll